(29 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 28 August 2024
1. María Corina Machado, leader of the opposition, singing the national anthem
2. Opposition supporters singing the national anthem
3. Machado greeting people at the rally
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader:
“At this very hour in the Organization of American States there is a permanent council where the IACHR (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) is reporting what it calls, ‘state terrorism practices’. What they have done is brutal. There are more than 2500 people detained including more than 150 children, child prisoners, kidnapped by Nicolás Maduro.”
5. Machado putting on rosary beads
6. Machado at rally
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 28 August 2024
7. Various of Maduro speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela:
“What would happen if they (the Prosecutor’s Office) summon us once and I don’t go, if they summon me a second time and I don’t go, and if they summon me a third time and I don’t go?”.
People answer: "Jail!"
Maduro: "The handcuffs. Judges are obliged to apply the law."
9. Crowd listening to Maduro speaking ++PART COVERING SHOT 8++
10. Various of Maduro supporter showing puppet of Hugo Chavez raising fists and below a message next to Maduro’s picture reads ‘peace’ ++PART COVERING SHOT 8++
11 . Supporter singing
STORYLINE:
Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro took to the streets Wednesday in an attempt to revive protests against him as he tightens his grip on power following last month’s disputed election.
The demonstration in the capital, Caracas, comes exactly a month after the fraught July 28 vote in which Maduro was declared the winner despite strong evidence that opposition candidate Edmundo González won by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, which drew international condemnation that the vote lacked transparency.
In weeks of on-again, off-again demonstrations, the opposition’s rallying cry has been constant but so far ineffective. Opponents have demanded that officials publish results from each polling station that they say would expose Maduro’s attempts to steal the election.
“Voting records kill sentence,” is how the opposition billed the latest protest, referring to the thousands of tally sheets it collected and posted online that contradict a recent sentence written by the loyalist Supreme Court certifying Maduro’s purported victory.
Wednesday’s protest was smaller than previous demonstrations. Meanwhile tiny groups of Venezuelans also gathered in other Latin America capitals.
Gonzalez has not appeared publicly in recent weeks and faces a criminal investigation by the Venezuelan justice system.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab, a close collaborator of Maduro and former pro-government legislator, has summoned Gonzalez to testify in relation to another criminal investigation for the publication of the voting records.
Gonzalez has not attended the appointments because he considers that the Attorney General “has repeatedly behaved as a political accuser” condemning him in advance.
Amid the ongoing crisis, Maduro has leaned heavily on security forces to preserve his power. On Tuesday, he appointed a hard-line ruling party boss Diosdado Cabello as interior minister, with oversight of police forces. Cabello has vowed to show no mercy against government opponents.
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